Benidorm – The lost Paradise

Every year, more than five million people pay to spend their well-deserved vacation in the huge tourist blocks of Benidorm. They can not all have a completely bad taste and be crazy, can they?

Diploma project of Nicole Strasser, 2009

Last Exit Detroit

Detroit, the once so proud »Motor City«, home of the ruined an almost lapsed »Big Three« - the 3 big American automakers GM, Ford and Chrysler – now ranks among the poorest cities in the United States of America. With the seemingly decline in recent decades, Detroit has become a worldwide symbol for the downturn of an entire industry.

Diploma project of Christian Burkert, 2009

ABODE - German Mennonites in Sibiria

At the beginning of the 20th century, German mennonites founded the village Solnzewka in West-Siberia. Today, more than 100 years later, they are deemed to be the biggest Mennonite community in Russia, despite the fact that many of them left during Gorbachev´s perestroika. A village reportage.

Final year project by Helge Krückeberg, 2008

Deutschland

With her audiovisual slideshow about Germany the Hanoverian student Nicole Strasser won the G+J photo award 2008 at the »Audiovisuell« category. The slideshow was done in a seminar with Stefan Sobotta and Rolf Nobel.

seminar project by Nicole Strasser, 2007

a journey into the dark

In Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northern most city in the world the sun does not shine for more than 4 months every winter.

Project by Florian Manz, Kim Bierbrauer and Lucas Wahl, 2009